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My skin condition made me cry - now i inspire others - shake my beauty

My skin condition made me cry - now i inspire others - shake my beauty

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When Jasmine first noticed an area of her skin had turned lighter, she brushed it off. But as more spots appeared, Jasmine went to her doctor where she was diagnosed with vitiligo, an autoimmune skin condition where the cells that produce skin pigment are, as Jasmine put it: being attacked by the body. - The vitiligo soon started spreading over Jasmine's body and face, growing 1mm every six months. Jasmine-s confidence was knocked. She told Truly: -I was really scared. Often I-d look in the mirror and just cry. - When she turned 25, Jasmine decided to embrace her vitiligo, leading to her creating -Tough Skin- a non-profit organisation, which encourages people to embrace themselves. Concluding on her journey to acceptance, Jasmine added, Vitiligo has really helped me to understand that skin colour doesn-t matter. You can be any colour under the rainbow and be beautiful just the way you are. I think a lot of people need to hear that
Date: 2023-09-12

Comments and reviews: 18


It's interesting that her first spot started when she was already a teenager. Usually, people with vitiligo have it from childhood. It shows that, maybe, people can develop vitiligo at different stages of life.
I remember some people that would gain many spots and then it disappeared with time.
It's very hard to handle people staring as if that person wasn't normal. I know how it is, that's why I just know some things and people don't need to explain themselves to me.
I'm glad that she became confident in herself. Unfortunately, we can lose the best part of our lives focusing on insecurities. Other people, usually, do focus on them too, but it's necessary to find strength and passion to live without caring so much about their opinions.
Vitiligo is also an emotional reaction.

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I had a work-mate who developed universal vitiligo. It started after a care crash. She was told it was the result of the trauma because her husband died in the crash and she almost died. Not sure if that is the case for everyone that develops this. But she was beautiful. The only reason I knew she had vitiligo is because of a small patch on her inner elbow. All the rest of her was pure white and she was beautiful to me. If I got this I would hope to turn all white or all brown. But I'm sure you have no control over how fast or slow the melanin completely leaves.
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Just surround yourself with people who are wise enough, smart enough, and perceptive enough, to see through the shallow visual noise to how beautiful you truly are.
I think you look awesome, both before and after. -
I'll stop there, otherwise my wife might cuff me upside the head. -

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well her mom is black and dad is white so it seems the melanin in her skin is just decreasing as the dominant gene from her father takes over perhaps it was dormant in her all these years i find it cool she will live half her life as a brown skin woman then a lightskin woman.
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EF Social definitions of beauty. It's really pathetic how our culture has programed women to try and attain this crazy standard. Truly, both women are Gorgeous. The vitiligo is like a living piece of abstract art.
So thrilled to see each of them embrace their -condition-

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I have vitiligo as well, my spots are getting larger by the month. I hope when it hits my face I-ll be able to have her confidence. My mom has it and is mostly white now. I don-t even see it on her, and the spots I have don-t bother me.
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With the ridiculous beauty standards we have nowadays I understand why she was upset about it initially but she is absolutely beautiful before and after and I love that she doesn-t let it define her anymore. She-s inspiring -
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She's absolutely beautiful before and after. She doesn't need makeup at all
Edit: the woman with alopecia is also gorgeous. They're both beautiful in their own way and also they're both beautiful inside and outside

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She-s just racist she don-t need no darn nurse #winnieharlow n this thee annoying voice I was hearing 2 smh just be white n disappear I have skin problems 2 but I-m not -insecure- about my character I know who I am
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I think it-s beautiful. Black skin/ white skin she is unique and the reasons that lead up to her skin is a natural mutation of evolution. I hope she embraces it and enjoys her LIFE -----
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I have never looked at a person with this common condition and laughed I have never thought they looked bad. it is so normal this is god watching over you I hope you don-t change who you are.
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How amazing and surreal is it to see someone appear and one ethnicity or race and then as another. What a beautiful experience, and how amazing, to transform your suffering!
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She is so BEAUTIFUL INSPIRING so proud of her being so opened and amazing blessing angel and so strong positive and unique and LOVEE her self confidence! ---
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Vitiligo or not, Jasmine looks like she can star in a reboot of A Different World.
Jasmine, keep inspiring others and stay beautiful.

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I don't understand why she thinks that her skin condition is a problem, for me she looks interesting, unusual and beautiful.
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In my point of view you are a beautiful girl and so do not discurage yourself and actually u r look like a angle-
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She is proof on how Black people became White thousands of years ago.
White people de-pigmented like her!

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- #- don-t know which way 2 go c y we have racism in the -blacked- community with that -makeup- n -contouring-
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